• Alex Standiford

    In about an hour (4PM EST) I’m doing the part 2 talk about blocks. I’ll be building pages and talking about how I use the block editor as a full-site builder. If you’re running an agency and have been looking to update, don’t miss it.

    events.godaddy.com/events/details…

  • Alex Standiford

    The blog is starting to get pretty slow. Right now it fetches content from a list of sites that I’ve written, but it’s slow when not cached. The cache isn’t persistent. Thinking about making a cron that primes the cache hourly.

    alexstandiford.com/blog

  • Alex Standiford

    SessionStorage can be used in much the same way as WordPress’ object cache, only it’s directly in the visitor’s browser instead of on the server.

    It’s a key element in what makes nearly headless so, so fast.

    wpdev.academy/wordpress-tuto…

  • Alex Standiford

    I wrote a pretty detailed article on how to build a nearly headless WordPress website on @css

    This goes into detail on how the Nicholas router works, and how to build the markup for your theme.

    PS: this is full site editing compatible!

    css-tricks.com/how-to-build-a…

  • Alex Standiford

    Looking to break into or just #webdev in general? Here’s the learning path I recommend, with resources to get you going. 🧵👇 First, learn HTML. This is the most-fundamental part of the web. It is mostly memorization. The goal here is to know enough to know what to Google. Take the course 1-2 times. Don’t stress if you don’t know every single tag, they’ll come in time.

    codecademy.com/learn/learn-ht…

  • Alex Standiford

    I got some some serious no mans sky vibes from the moonrise yesterday.

  • Alex Standiford

    So, I knew the @css post was coming up over the weekend, and went ahead and added the site to my feed: alexstandiford.com/blog

    Took a peek this morning to see if it automatically added the post, and voila! There it is.

    Really enjoying this little aggregator of mine.

  • Alex Standiford

    I love that the new MacBook pros both have a physical escape key, and they’re double the width of most other escape keys. Talk about an over-correction 😂

  • Alex Standiford

    I’m less concerned about the silliness of the whole “decode HTML” thing, and more concerned that someone was slapped for doing the right thing. Security is hard enough as it is, we don’t need people to be afraid to report issues, especially ones that are so blatant.

  • Alex Standiford

    I’ve traveled all over about 2/3rds of this country, sampling beer and wine as I go, and I seriously can’t find porters that are better than what I could find in the Midwest. Most don’t even come close. That’s kind of the magic of travel though, isn’t it? Not only do you get to find what’s extraordinary, but you also get to discover what’s extraordinary about where you are from.

Alex
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Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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